2019 won’t be the only new number you’ll need to adjust to come January 1. On that date, most of North Carolina’s prosecutorial districts also will have new numbers. Several of them will also have newly elected district attorneys. New district numbers. Retracing the changes in district numbers requires a bit of back-tracking. The first significant recent change was enacted by Section 18B.9.(e) of S.L 2017-57, which renumbered prosecutorial districts by whole numbers, removing the designations of A,B,C, and D for prosecutorial districts other than District 9A. Those changes, which were to be effective January 1, 2019, were amended by several subsequent session laws, Section 5.6.(a) of S.L. 2017-197, Section 18B.6 of S.L. 2018-5, Section 24.(a), (b) of S.L. 2018-114, and Section 3.(a). of S.L. 2018-121. Along the way, several prosecutorial divisions were reconstituted, and District 9A was eliminated altogether. Because judicial district bars are nearly coterminous with prosecutorial districts, the State Bar prepared this helpful chart noting the changes in district numbers. The one exception to the coterminous rule applies in High Point, which has its own district bar, designated in the chart as District 24H. Guilford County, the county in which most of High Point is situated, is Prosecutorial District 24. More changes to come. Two of the changes enacted by S.L. 2018-121 are not yet effective. Prosecutorial District 19 (comprised of Scotland and Hoke Counties) will be eliminated December 31, 2020, which marks the end of the current district attorney’s term. On January 1, 2021, Scotland County will [...]
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